Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-03
LOCAL BREYTTIES.

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A new pay car is being built at the rail.
road shops.
The fees in the County Clerks office
amounted to 1919 80 for October.
Sacramento hoodlums are committing
nightly depredations in the eastern portions
OF the city.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the
great contiagration that laid Sacramento in
ashes in 1852.
Inc Sacramento markets are stocked
with game ducks, geese, grouse, quail,
squirrel, hares and cottontails.
A furious female was on the warpath
yesterday. She swears she will have the
scalp OF newspaporial scribb!er.
The name of John Oshwald appeared on
the slate at the police station Tuesday
night. 1t should have been Oswald.
patron of East Park writes that the
sprinkling cart has been abandoned out
there and the drive in consequence is
dusty.
The fifth social and dance of the Olive
branch Society will be given at Turner
hall tonight. Music by Jones, Fisch &
Watson.
:, Articles of incorporation were yesterday
| nled IN the office of the Secretary of State
|
Company.
Chief Dillman came back from Dogtown
yesterday, having been successful in captur.
ing F. L. Regency, who is wanted here for
petit larceny.
The steamers Dover and D. E. Knight
| came down from the upper Sacramento
yesterday, the former having in tow barge
load of grain.
Complaint has been made at the police
station that "a couple of tramps have been
hanging around the Convent school, acting
In very immodest manner.
Lieutenant J. 2. Burns, of Company B.
First Artillery Regiment, passed a very
successful examination Tuesday evening
| before the Board of Examiners.
A few days ago the delivery team of A.
| ID. Christensen started on a runaway. and
was not stopped until they had run about a
mile. The wind up was at the Ameri-
can river bridge.
The Supervisors yesterday laid out the
line for the new Twelfth-street bridge. 1t
is few feet above the old bridge ana will
be three feet higher than the latter. The
contractors will commence work immedi-
ately.
The curfew bell, if good for the bows.
why not good for the girls? If some pa
rents were aware of the waywardness of
some OF their families, there would be
fewer girls " gadding" the streets after 8
o'clock.
During his term of three years as Police
| Judge of this city, Hon. n. Greene Curtis
collected $73 coo in fines, which added yery
respectfully to the revenue of the CITY and
materially lessened the burden OF tax
| payers.
| A dispatch from New York last night
| says Dr. Hammond Stoddard, formerly of
Sacramento, died at his home in BROOKLYN,
| at O'Clock last Sunday morning on his
| 18th birthday anniversary. He had been
| sick two months.
| AT the railroad shops in this city the old
| styled immigrant cars are being built over
great many conveniences added. The
sleeping apartments will be like those on
the silver palace cars. Each car will have
ladies dressing-rooM.
| K. S. Carey has sold from his Putah
Creek, Yolo county, farm 100 head of
yearling Durham bulls to the Hebron
Bros. OF this city. The bulls have been
| shipped to the Hebron cattle range On
Kings river, in Kern county.
The Grand Jury made partial report
yesterday afternoon, finding two indict-
ments-one for rape and the other for alb
electromagnetic Fred Denny Bench
warrants are out, and Denny will be trans
terred from the City Prison to the County
Jail to-. day.
| The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 500, being 60 warmer than the
normal for that day. The highest and
! lowest temperature was 75o and 44o, with
| gentle southerly winds during the early
morning and fresh northerly winds at noon,
and calm at night. Weather clear and
| warm.
The queer actions of young couple on
Sixth street, between ] and K, about 10
o'clock last night, attracted considerable
attention. The girl hid her face while pass
| ing persons, and for fear of couple of
gentlemen whom they were about to meet,
they ran across the street in the middle of
the block.
| Two large locomotives were turned out
of the shops yesterday built especially for
service on the California and Oregon Rail
road line. Their numbers are A and 10.
Each has eight driving wheels and the new
patent smokestack. They appear to be
weighty but are, in fact lighter than the
ordinary engines.
| Yesterday Superintendent of Public In
struction Ira G. Hoitt paid into the State
Treasury to the credit of the school fund
81, 800 10. for sale of school books during
the month of October. The books sold
were as follows: First Readers, 2,137; Sec
ond Readers, 1,7S5; Third Readers, 1893;
Spoilers, LAB; Arithmetics, 1851.
Some Woodlandites who went to the
booming country Of Southern California are
returning thoroughly disguised with that
part of the State, and are now satisfied to
remain in Yolo county. They say that
water is not only scarce but bad, and that
living is high, everything being shipped to
| that section from other parts of the State
a man came into this Office yesterday and
said: st. John was away off when he
gave the number of saloons in Sacra-
mento. There are more than a thousand"
| The excited individual was told that he
was most likely away off" mot
much" he replied. " went into q beer
joint on J street to day, and when | came
out looked up above the door, and Whist
do you think | read there-No. 1850"
Yesterday afternoon one of Wells, Fargo
& Co delivery horses became frightened
and started on a runaway up ] street, near
Seventh. The wagon collided with a
phaeton near the corner of Sixth street
which stopped the horse. The phaeton
and also the wagon were considerably dam
aged. ]. K. May who was driving the ex-
press horse, was thrown from his seat on to
the cobbles, and received slight injury
over the right eye.
The burning of leaves and limbs of trees
late in the afternoon, which is now being
done every evening almost all over the city
causes a dense body of smoke to settle
over the town and is very dsagreeable to
all who are suffering from lung troubles.
If the parties would change the hour of
burning from evening to morning, the dis
agreeableness spoken of would be avoided.
Those who are in perfect health should not
wish to inflict a punishment upon their
invalid friends, and calling their attention
TO this fact ought to be sufficient.